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Aleemay

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  1. So this is an old tweet. But I didn't want to post this in case it was a false one. However I just saw her in the Instagram account. Looks like Texas got Lulu Sun. Maybe there's some eligibility issues and that's why she's not on the website roster yet but Lulu is an accomplished player with a Junior record that is (in my opinion) even better than Bianca's. High of 13 in juniors, Australian Open Junior Doubles finalist, has made deep runs at singles Junior grand slams, Youth Olympic Games participant, couple $15k wins, top 500 ranking, etc.

    IF she gets eligible, I can't see why Texas would not be in the conversation for a national championship

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Texas has had many 2nd round matchups go 4 but this is the first 2nd round five setter under Elliot at Gregory. 

    Closest we’ve come to losing before the regionals in Austin since we lost 1-3 in 2005 to Hawaii. 

    And 2005 was such an unfair draw! I believe Texas was ranked in the top 10 in the Coaches Poll and the committee had given Hawaii a top 10 national seed. So in essence it was a top 10 match up in the Round of 32. I also think it was Topic's last games ever as college player. Bethany Howden's too. Such a shame as both those players were really the building blocks for Elliot's success at Texas.

  3. Bianca just won a 25K this week. Really good as this was on hard court. In addition, she had her highest ranked win. Really close to breaking into the top 300.

    Anna made the finals of Fall Nationals. This should set her up decently to qualifying as an All American this year. Also impressed that Lexi got two wins this week.

    Lineup prediction for the spring:

    1. Bianca

    2. Anna

    3. Lexi/Nagy

    4. Lexi/Nagy

    5. Labrana (also had a pretty good fall season)

    6. Perez-Mur

    I think Tijana will find herself into the doubles lineup as she has some better technical double skills than some of her teammates.

  4. Austin ITF 15K going on right now. Bianca and Anna are doing their usual things. Fernanda had a good win too in the first round.

    Keep an eye on another player too- Charlotte Chavatipon who verballed to play for the Horns next year. Beat Maria Lourdes Carles today who played #3 at Georgia and was an All American as a freshmen last year.

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  5. Seeing as the women's team just got a junior slam doubles champion, looks like the men's team had to get one too. Spizzirri just won the US Open Juniors doubles tournament. He's also the number one rated recruit on Tennis Recruiting.

    Looks like recruiting hasn't slowed down since Berque got hired. Class of 2020 has three Top 10 recruits! Wonder if we're also targeting Armilli's younger brother who for two years was also a blue chip recruit.

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  6. 1 hour ago, jeevsie said:

    Hmm.  Random question - Is college like high school - your xc guys are your distance runners on the track? 

    Yes. Even some mid distance guys run XC in college. Leo Manzano (1500 Olympic medalist) ran a couple of Cross Country meets at Texas

  7. 50 minutes ago, Goodman said:

    How much do parents spend on this sport? Global travel and all these tournaments, what a rip off.

    Hate to say it but lots of tennis does come from parent's financial support. I've known friends just at the national level spending around $20,000 a year on the sport. Not going to be specific but there have been quite a few players at Texas in the past two decades who come from well off background and are able to play ITFs making their prep results quite impressive. On the flip side, there have also been other players that aren't as accomplished due to limited resources before they've come to Texas and have excelled.

    With Nagy, I'm cautious to say but I think she's getting support from her national tennis federation- due to having played Fed Cup and having an Olympian parent.

  8. On 9/10/2019 at 1:23 PM, TexasDPT said:

    Iosia was a setter before transitioning to a full-time libero.  She is currently setting her HS team (ranked #1 in CA) while their starting setting is with the USA YNT.

    She is able to hand-set with tempo to the pins as well as to the middles from BEHIND the 10' line.  

    Imagine all those balls that get bumped set to the pins being hand-set with better accuracy and tempo so that the hitters can take better rips on the ball...plus she has a Haley Eckerman-esque jump serve that will put a lot of pressure on the opposing team's serve-receive. 

    Next year might be Texas' best serving team in a very long time.

    I just want to temper your expectation for Iosia setting the middles in college. I know Hahn also did that while she was in high school too. Even now when she can overhand set as a DS all her sets are going to the OH.

  9. Oh wow Joffe does have a huge recruit- Adrienn Nagy (according to twitter). Top 30 Junior ranking (this is higher than Bianca's career high) BUT most importantly has big doubles results. Current Junior Australian Open and Orange Bowl doubles champion. Also a semifinalist at this year's French Open. Represented her country in Fed Cup. Currently competing at the US Junior Open. Mother was also a professional tennis player.

     

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  10. Sigh..... Markovic transferred to Hawaii.

    Granic also missing from the roster. Don't know why. She gave an interview to a Croatian website just last month.

    https://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/sport/tenis/clanak/id/613175/sad-se-zeli-okusati-i-na-wta-touru-splicanka-dosla-na-odmor-iz-sad-a-i-usput-postala-prvakinja-hrvatske

    If Google translate is working correctly, she was talking about playing the $15k tournaments in the fall when she got back and sounded excited to be finishing her marketing degree here.

    Let's hope there's some second semester freshmen Joffe is working to get over here.

  11. 8 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Brooksby is gonna be Baylor’s best player since Banjamin Becker.....assuming he doesn’t go straight pro

    Rumor is he's going pro. Heard rumblings that he switched his commitment from TCU to Baylor because of the Baylor-Oracle connection allowing him to get WC's to a bunch of challengers. With  >$100K prize money, top 300 rankings, and now the USTA teen poster boy, there should be no need of those Oracle WC's.

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